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Status, blood quantum, stereotypes, tax exemption, Metis identity, stolen generations… The list could very well go on of the topics discussed in the 31 chapters of Chelsea Vowel’s recently published book Indigenous Writes: a Guide to First Nations, Metis & Inuit Issues in Canada (Highwater Press, $20.80-$26).

By: Paul Graif , The Eastern Door Konwenni Jacobs is considered a veteran at Standing Rock, North Dakota. She’s been there for the last six weeks, this being her third trip from her home in Kahnawake.

This past weekend’s big news about the US Army Corps of Engineers turning down the Dakota Access Pipeline permit was a great victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, as well as for our local supporters, other Indigenous people and earth lovers everywhere.

The state of dozens of tombstones and crosses in the Catholic cemetery has some community members concerned. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door )

Snugly hug your feet in merino wool socks. (Stephanie EM Coleman, The Eastern Door) By: Stephanie EM Coleman, The Eastern Door’s Fashion Diva I’m a little foggy on when it all started.

The Eastern Door sat down with fire chief David Scott and KFB board members Lloyd Phillips and Terry Diabo to talk about issues concerning the current and future state of Kahnawake’s ambulance service.

Gary Beauvais, The Eastern Door’s Garden Guru Coming soon to a podcast near you, The Nature Boy Show. This podcast will be about gardening, nature and cooking.

Like Thanksgiving dinner, Eastern Door reporter Jessica Deer plans on piling cranberry sauce onto every slice of meat pie consumed this holiday season.

The meat packages say “Lafleur’s Meat Market,” and the family tradition continues at Eagle’s Nest Convenience and Deli run by Kiersten Lafleur-Diabo and Jay Diabo, a couple with convenience and meat in their blood.

“I’m done with it,” said KFB chief David Scott, after the wood splitting business on Highway 138 caught fire for the second time in a month.